Improvement in combined thimble and thread-cutter



. A. MQINT'OSH. Combined Thimble and Thread Cutter.- No. 213,124

Paterite d Ma 11, 1879.

I Inventor.

N. PEFERS. PHOTO-UTHOGRAPMH. WASHINGTON. D, C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADAM MCINTOSH, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED THIMBLE AND THREAD-CUTTER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 213,124, dated March 11, 1879; application filed September 21, 1878.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADAM Molnrosn, of

Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York, have invented a new and useful improvement, consisting of a thread-cutter combined with and attached to a thimble, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure l is a perspective view of my combined thread-cutter and thimble. Fig. 2 is an enlarged side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a view of the top of thimble with the threadcutter attached. Fig. 4 is an enlarged vertical section with the thread-cutter removed, to show the slot or opening in the top of said thimble. Fig. 5 shows thefiange-plate punched in shape to form the ears or lugs; Fig. 6, the plate bent to pass through the groove or slot in the top of the thimble, thereby forming the ears or lugs to receive the blade of the threadcutter.

A,'Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, represents the thimble, provided with a slot or opening, B, across the top, as shown at Fig. 4, (enlarged section,) to receive a flanged plate provided with ears or lugs G 0, Figs. 1, 2, 3, to receive the blade or cutter D and lips or'projections E E, which are pressed down to hold said ears or lugs and the thread-cutter or blade firmly in place.

Fig. 5 shows the flange-plate punched to form the ears or lugs G O, and having lips E E, which are pressed down firmly on the top of the thimble after the thread-cutter or knife D has been inserted in said ears or lugs. The flange-plate is then soldered on the inside of the thimble. Fig. 6 shows the flange-plate bent to form the ears or lugs O 0, ready to enter the slot or opening B, Fig. 4.

What I claim is- In combination with the thimble, slotted at the end, the cutter-holding flange-plate O, constructed and applied in the manner substantially as specified.

ADAM MGINTOSH.

Witnesses:

BART. J. HAGKETT, CHARLES H. MILLS. 

